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Same here but be grateful you don't support Scotland too and didn't have the six World Cup heartaches 1974-98 and the moving ball in '96 to pile the misery on top of other misery
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The Holmesdale crowd wouldn't have realised it then but against Ipswich they were standing on that lovely terrace in the top league for the final time.
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Every club have arrogant tossers attached to them. This board proves we have just as many as any other club
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It should have just been an unfortunate blip, which it was as we cruised the league the following season
The decline really set it in with the lack of investment, poor signings and the reluctance to sack Alan Smith who way out of his depth.
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For some reason I barely remember any of it. But this is brought up constantly despite it being an absolute fluke. What will it take to vanquish this demon?
We were instantly promoted and smashed Division One the following season, securing the title, but were again cruelly relegated on 45 points. So it really pisses me off when I hear West Ham whine about their 'astonishing' relegation on 42 points, when we have both 49 and 45 in the bag (42 games). |
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There were palace fans in the Clock end home bit and the stand to the side. Was surprised when everyone stood up singing - was like we were taking over Highbury - we were in the lower tier. Palace all around us.
Remember the away section trying to get onto the pitch, as they pushed forward as the game came to a close, and a copper getting a radio lobbed at his head. A policeman had his finger 'bitten off' and I saw lots of trouble afterwards.
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Strange that you barely remember the 1993 relegation, but describe the following one as 'cruel'. We all knew the rules at the start of the season (ie that four teams would be relegated) and we got fewer points than our previous season up. We were unlucky to be caught out in the season of change from 22 to 20 teams - but it was nowhere near as bad as the previous relegation.
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I remember having to ring Clubcall from a public phone box to get the Arsenal result. Still makes me shudder to this day.
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It really wasn't. They should've respected you far more, just because they are glory seeking and passionless doesn't mean you aren't. I hope you are rubbing their faces in it right now though
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I remember on the Wednesday evening and we were away at City and listening on Capital Gold Sport. It may have been Johnathon Pearce or Steve Wilson commentating from Maine Road but as Ray Ranson cleared "Skips" header off the line, Oldham had scored a 4th at home to Liverpool (courtesy of a shocking goal keeping display) and that's when the reality hit.
For some of the younger fans on these boards, our trips to Highbury were frequently painful and we all too regularly shipped 4 goals. Seeing Wrighty doing the inevitable after about 8 minutes hammered the final nail in our coffin, and we never really got going in the match, and many of us were listening for updates from Boundary Park from the Oldham/Saints game. A horrendous day and I will never ever forget leaving Highbury hearing Roy Chubby Brown - Alice blare out over the tannoy How ever painful relegation was.........it was well worth it. 93/94 emulated 90/91 IMO, and provided some of my best ever days. We didn't just beat teams, we destroyed them whilst playing free flowing football and the championship season still ranks as my all time favourite.
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I remember at the time of the Villa Oldham game I was in Swanage with my girlfriend and got back to the car after a sort of "4 seasons in one day" walk along the cliff tops. As I put the keys in the ignition and waited for the radio to come on I said to her "please god no headline of Manchester United are Champions". Sat there in disbelief when those words indeed came through. I'm sure she won't have enjoyed the silence on the long drive home.
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Not sure they did after we played Wolves(?) in the last game of Alan Smiths 2nd tenure...probably because of the used season ticket booklets raining down ontot the pitch.
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I was on a coach going to see my mates band play in Covent Garden. My then girlfriend taunted me the whole way, just whispering "Oldham" at me (the relationship didn't last long after that). I was not in the best of moods and got hammered! the coach broke down on the way home too. Gig wasn't up to much either. Crap day all round.
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No decent replacements bar Chrissie Armstrong coming in. I think the general negative attitude did show in a number of the performances that season as attacking wise all we had was Armstrong despite still having a good defense & even then they had some shockers over the season like Wimbledon away. At least now we know that we are buggered if anything happens to Wilf. |
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I was living in Japan at the time and the English language newspaper - The Japan Times actually said that Palace were safe from relegation at one point. I can't remember if that was after the Ipswich game, it might have been.
I didn't bother checking, just remember feeling really relieved at the time. It was just such a shock after the Arsenal game to read that we had been relegated. |
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I was on the terrace in the corner, and my only real memories of the game were getting the whispered news through that Oldham were thumping Southampton, followed by the news of Southampton staging a comeback.
That was before the trouble kicked off, and my Dad lifted my 10 year old brother over the hoarding on to the pitchside to escape it, turned back to grab me over (I was 12 at the time) and I had been swept several yards away - to which he made a beeline for me and punched another Palace fan who tried to stop him for some reason. By the time he got me over the hoarding, my brother was nowhere to be seen, and we were sent to the corner the other side of the goal to the St John's station, where we were told he was. Got there to be told he wasn't, but I ducked in anyway to have a look - turned out they were right, so we had to walk in front of the entire home end for a second time to look for him around the away end. Turns out they'd sent him along the touchline for some reason, and we found him in floods of tears. We then had to walk back across to the same corner we'd been to and left again, this time being heckled by the Arsenal fans because of my brother's tears (goading that it was because of relegation, which it wasn't, it was the scary situation a 10 year old had found himself in), and my Dad basically called them all out - the whole end went silent after that as we carried on walking. As we'd left before full time, I was hoping and praying that we'd get back to the car, turn on the radio and hear Southampton had equalised, but that obviously didn't happen and compounded an already awful experience. My brother then ended up with his picture on the back page of one of the papers, sat by the side of the pitch in his Palace top in floods of tears, but again with the inference it was because of the relegation, rather than what had gone on off the pitch. Not sure what caused the trouble - I think in the past it has been hinted it was between sets of Palace fans, but honestly no idea what it was. On the plus side, it did give us the following season, and without the down of that day, we wouldn't have had the emotion and enjoyment of the following season, culminating at Ayresome Park winning the title, and still being in the ground over an hour after full time celebrating!
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This is true FourtyTwo. Days like that at Arsenal make you appreciate the good days more and make the most of it when you do get glory. Something that 'big clubs' will never experience. Winning will always mean more to clubs and fans like us. To them, it's just a way of life. Unless you've ever experienced relegation, you'll never know what it feels like.
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Remember being at college in Wales and listening to Radio 5. When our relegation had been confirmed, I listened to World Party's Is It Like Today which became the soundtrack to my misery. A tear or two was shed and I always think about Palace and 1993 when I hear that song again.
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